filicide
noun/ˈfɪ.lɪ.sʌɪd/UK
Etymology
From Latin fīlius (“son”), fīlia (“daughter”) + -cide.
Definitions
The killing of one's own child.
- it began by violating nature, and ends in filicide. (I, v)
A person who kills his or her own child.
- Ned is running, panicked, […] running for the cold hard road and the sanctuary of the Brunch farm like a filicide caught in the act.
The neighborhood
- neighborfamilicide
- neighborfratricide
- neighborhomicide
- neighborinfanticide
- neighborneonaticide
- neighborparricide
- neighborprolicide
- neighborsororicide
- neighborsuicide
- neighboruxoricide
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for filicide. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA